Police, emergency rescuers respond to reported mall shooting

“We heard at least 10 shots, maybe more”.

Outside the mall, where people gathered afterward, a police officer got on the loudspeaker on a fire truck and said there was no one shot in the mall.

Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh was placed on lockdown Saturday afternoon, mall officials said.

Crabtree Valley, with almost 200 stores, is one of the largest enclosed malls in the U.S. Southeast, according to its website.

No suspects have been arrested yet, and no shoppers have been found injured, according to WTVD-TV.

Raleigh police were called to the mall at about 2:45 p.m. Glenwood Avenue was shut down near the mall as a result of the shooting. “They said to keep to low, said police were on the scene”.

Meanwhile, a post on Twitter showed video of people flooding out of an exit at the mall. WATCH: Eyewitness describes huge crowds of people leaving mallOther eyewitnesses said they had to run out of the mall as well.

One man told the local news outlet that he heard about five or six shots while shopping with his family, calling the incident “the scariest thing I went through in my life”. Rice reported that Raleigh police officers were evacuating stores in the food court area.

Police told them they could leave the store at about 3 p.m.